Burnout recovery with The Arrigo Programme - England
Somerset, england, united kingdom
Personalised deep healing retreats for mind and body in rural havens
A visionary in her field, biodynamic psychotherapist Fiona Arrigo offers bespoke healing retreats that offer the highest level of personal attention during times of great need. Based in rural Somerset, these individual retreats contain a year’s worth of evidence-based therapy in just a few days. If you’re an overworked professional suffering burnout, stress or trauma, they can put you on the road to recovery. Are you coping with a major life change or grief, or trying to salvage a relationship or deal with an addiction or an eating disorder? They can reset you too.
our Reviewer CAROLINE SYLGE says:
‘The Arrigo Programme’s combination of psychotherapy, therapies, emotional support and deep rest is a rare find. Fiona is wise and perceptive, and I would love to spend hours with her. We chat mainly about mothering, and how to trust my creativity to create the flow in my life I need’
Queen of Retreats says:
‘Fiona’s work is increasingly focused on people suffering from conditions, such as trauma, overwhelm, grief and addictions. You’ll get the equivalent of six months’ therapy in a few days. Be aware that old emotions will rise to the fore, but the more time and energy you invest, the lighter you’ll feel when you leave’
What to expect
These retreats are for high-achieving professionals, such as directors, lawyers, investors and consultants, who are at a crossroads and looking for healing, stress release, restored energy and a renewed zest for life.
You’ll be ensconced in your own comfortable cottage, shielded from the interruptions of everyday life and urged to undergo a digital detox to break free of devices and technology so you can achieve clarity and emerge with a deeper understanding of yourself. Housekeeping is in the form of an ‘Arrigo angel’ who will discreetly provide everything from delicious breakfasts and restful music to films and books for your evenings.
Drawing on her 40 years’ experience, Fiona designs and supervises all individual retreats. You’ll have access to her in-depth knowledge and insightful intuition, as well as an exceptional team, who will come to your cottage, so you have nothing to do and nowhere to go.
Bespoke retreats start with an in-depth pre-retreat consultation to ascertain your issues, needs and desires, after which a highly developed plan is drawn up based on your individual needs. You’ll have a minimum of four laser-focused treatments per day, including TRE, tension and trauma-releasing exercises, known to relieve deep-rooted stress, and craniosacral therapy to release tension around the body's connective tissue.
Between sessions, you’re urged to relax, with local countryside walks, journaling, daily Epsom salt baths and early nights. Expect world-class treatment, emotional support, healing, deep rest and a renewed sense of purpose. After your retreat, you’ll receive a follow-up plan.
The Space
Retreats take place in private, charming, quintessentially English countryside cottages, amidst Somerset flora and fauna, where you can reconnect to nature, community and self.
Fresh flowers, candles and wood fires create a cocooning sanctuary in simple, stylish comfort. You’ll emerge from your bedroom each morning to find the wood burner lit, tea lights burning and breakfast awaiting you.
Your commute will become a distant memory as you embrace the fresh air walks nearby, and deadlines will be a thing of the past as you take long baths and cosy up by the fire.
Food and drink
Ethos & Preferences
Breakfast is prepared for you in your private cottage. Other meals are healthy and delivered to your door in Tupperware for you to cook yourself, or have your Angel cook for you. Think healthy soups, salads and hot dishes made from mainly organic, locally sourced ingredients. All dietary needs can be catered for - vegan, vegetarian, or with meat and fish and a range of hot drinks and snacks are available for you to help yourself throughout the day. This is an alcohol-free retreat.
SAMPLE MENU
Breakfast: Smoothies and juices, granola, local yoghurt, and berries, or eggs and smoked salmon on toast.
Lunch: Vegetable stews, or vegetable and cashew nut stir fry with soba noodles.
Dinner: Lemon orzo and chickpea soup followed by courgette and feta frittata with spiced tomato sauce, or Thai fragrant coconut and vegetable soup followed by Korean vegetable pancake with soy and sesame dipping sauce.
DINING AREAS
This will depend on your cottage, but there will be a dining space.
Guest reviews
4.9 ★ - Outstanding, based on 15 verified reviews
Bespoke Therapy Retreat
20s, Germany
Arrigo put me back together in the gentlest of ways.
It was a time of such profound change.
Bespoke Therapy Retreat
20s, USA
Healing with Arrigo is next level.
Bespoke Therapy Retreat
40s, UK
I have never experienced this level of applied care.
It was wonderful to have the Arrigo psychiatric care and diagnosis alongside the emotional and energetic care that you receive at Arrigo. My only comment would be that I would prefer to have my own room for treatments which my cottage did not facilitate.
Bespoke Therapy Retreat
40s, Asia
I had experienced wonderful support.
Bespoke Therapy Retreat
40s, Asia
Loved the cottage. What a wonderful team of therapists.
I felt heard, not judged and really taken care of by everyone. Thank you so much I will never forget these 5 days.
Bespoke Therapy Retreat
30s, UK
I trust Fiona knows what I need in the moment and she delivered exactly that.
I would love everyone to have the ability to come.
Near Glastonbury, Somerset
The Arrigo Programme
Developed by psychotherapist Fiona Arrigo, The Arrigo Programme offers private, bespoke retreats for individuals and families, and group retreats for teens in Somerset, England; group retreats for women in Spain and India; and a virtual retreat programme open to everyone. Recognised worldwide for their therapeutic and clinical treatment programmes, they offer change, transformation and emotional detox and healing.